DEVELOPMENT: EL NINO ROCKS ECONOMY IN CENTRAL AMERICASilvio Hernandez
(redirected fromElnino) El Niño–Southern Oscillation El Niño–Southern Oscillation(ENSO)(ĕl nēnˈyō), large-scale climatic fluctuation of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the overlying atmosphere. TheEl Niño[Span.,=the child] is the South American term for the warm surface current th...
A warming of the surface water of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, occurring every 4 to 12 years and causing unusual weather patterns. The warmer water kills fish and plankton, brings heavy rains to western South America, and causes drought in eastern Australia and Indonesia. CompareLa Ni...
El Nino conditions are set to disrupt the power sectors of various markets across Latin America, stemming from downside risks to hydropower generation. This, in turn, constitutes an upside risk to natural gas demand in Central America, the Caribbean and north-eastern South America over the near-...
El Nino/La Nina What is El Nino? From NOAA website El Nino was originally recognized by fishermen off the coast of South America as the appearance of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean, occurring near the beginning of the year. El Nino means The Little Boy or Christ child in ...
ROME The World Food Programme (WFP) appealed today for US$9.4 million in emergency food aid for poor farmers and their families in five countries of Central America where the El Nio meteorological phenomenon has caused drought and floods. The aid would go to 323,000 people, more than half ...
"El Nino has a bad connotation, undeservedly so in the U.S.," said Harry Hillaker, state climatologist in Iowa. "Given the water supply issues they are having in California, more rain would be helpful." And in Central America, while dryness associated with El Nino would curb coffee prod...
Fig. 7.7.(A) Schematic representation of ocean circulation and atmosphere at El Nino. (B) Positive anomaly(in white)of seawater temperature in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America during El Nino in 1997. ((A) NOAA, What is El Niño? Available from:https://www.pmel.noaa....
Although El Niño is weakening, its ramifications continue to be felt around the world. Drought and resulting food insecurity is one of the major implications for southeast Asia, eastern and southern Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. Sixty mil
El Niño is a significant increase in Pacific Ocean water surface temperatures along the coast of South America. It’s a phenomenon that has been repeating itself for thousands of years, with irregular cadences: the interval between one episode and the next can range from 2 to 7 years, wit...